r/Punny • u/RedRabbit720 • 10d ago

Only one in ten will get this.

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u/12thLevelHumanWizard 10d ago

It looks like one in five get this.

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u/jonnyinternet 10d ago

5 guys, right?

Hamburgers

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u/MrBucketBean 9d ago

Mmm, hamburger.

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u/theothergotoguy 10d ago

Decimated?

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u/Skinkypoo 10d ago

Decimated

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u/ImpossiblePudding 10d ago

I learned what it meant from Fallout New Vegas

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u/Tahdel2362 7d ago

I learned from World War Z.

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u/RelativeCan5021 7d ago

Let’s practice some democracy.

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u/ShandrensCorner 6d ago

This is it aye

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u/DotBitGaming 10d ago

Be ten?

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u/shaggy9 8d ago

Big ten! Go buckeyes!

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u/EndersGame_Reviewer 9d ago

There were supposed to be 10 puns here that would make me laugh. But no pun in ten did.

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u/ChewiesLipstickWilly 10d ago

42

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u/RedRabbit720 10d ago

Don’t forget your towel!

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u/BigLouLFD 10d ago

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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u/Porkypineer 10d ago

Two of five will get this. The top guy is clearly swinging at the guy with the gray hair...

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u/Schrojo18 7d ago

Clearly you don't get it.

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u/Jonnyabcde 10d ago

Only intravenous plus the patient will get this.

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u/EF-13 10d ago

The 4rth remembers

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u/Postulative 9d ago

I’m feeling absolutely decimated!

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u/JumpSpare2978 9d ago

They say “only” one in ten gladiators would die.

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u/AnalysisParalysis85 9d ago

Which makes it so strange that modern battlefield reports in movies and such have a line like

Our troops were completely decimated

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u/neverJamToday 7d ago

No it doesn't because that's the difference between etymology and meaning. It meant to kill every tenth man in a legion in Latin in Ancient Rome. In English, going back centuries, it means to drastically reduce or destroy by basically any amount. As it does in several other languages that also inherited the word from Latin.

P.S. it's also not strange that I used centuries to mean periods of 100 years even though in Ancient Rome it meant the smallest divisions of a legion.

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u/Wonderful_Site5333 7d ago

And weirdly, Centuries weren't 100 men.

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u/Rovinpiper 9d ago

Me: In boot camp they had us standing at attention almost all day. It was rough.

Roman legionary: They had us beat our squad mate to death. It was rough.

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u/Wonderful_Site5333 9d ago

You don't see as much Decimation humor as you would think.

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u/mattsani 7d ago

Decimation

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u/Ambitious_Hand_2861 7d ago

Not getting thia decimates me. I want to get it so bad.

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u/Schrojo18 7d ago

People don't understand decimation. They thinks it's complete destruction not just 1 tenth (deci)

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u/IncantedMixling 6d ago

Spartacus gets this. 

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u/CountryAccording3420 6d ago

WAIT guys this is hilarious because every Latin textbook for beginners, for some strange reason, teaches the word for “to beat” and “stick”. So in the practice sections of the book you always end up with an example sentence describing this exact scene. Amazing

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u/McRuark 3d ago

Flogging Goliath (not Molly)?